# Rejected Posts and Category Edit Change

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-posts-and-category-edit-change/67310>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-posts-and-category-edit-change/67310 "2017-08-02T10:41:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 10:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rejected-posts-and-category-edit-change/67310/2 "2017-08-02T10:45:17Z")

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> [@Utopia](#):
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> Also, we sometimes get a very valid correct post in the approval queue, waiting to be approved, but the use has selected the wrong category/sub-category for the post.

There’s some recent discussion on this idea here

> [@Ability to change the category of a post before approving](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-change-the-category-of-a-post-before-approving/66754):
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> Hello. We are using a forum where most of the posts are subject to moderator approval. When approving a post sometimes we need to change the category. Currently we approve the post first and then manually change its category by going to the topic. Can it be so that the category change is done in the approval page (/queued-posts)?

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